HE MILE STONE IN CHRIST
PART 3
Ephesians series
.WHAT THEY DON’T UNDERSTAND ABOUT GODS GRACE
That you are educated does not means you understand the concept of grace;
I meet a group of people who were educated and are perceived to be a first class material but practical examples of plantar failures in the things of Grace and true Godliness for they have being deceived and become deceivers themselves, my initial pain was that they were educated for some were in the Engineering , medicine and other field of life and some form of normal logic should have being able to help , I concluded that they might be able to comprehend their studies for educational success but will not comprehend the bible by logic.
BUT WHAT WERE THEY MEANT TO BELIEVE?
That day the discussion began and they were truly good speakers with gestures good enough to hold every sphere of your attention , they truly had vocabularies that sounded like grace but the essences and interpretations altogether with the illustration was how to live a graceless life …and for me ,yet the fire if holiness and purity of heart burns in my soul and would not stay …Oh God give me one Opportunity ,please Just One , to speak in the Gathering ,Just one was my heart desire , a question dropped in my heart while I sort for how to coming ; ask them this question “ PLEASE SIR DOES IT MEAN THAT IF I HAD SURRENDERD MY HEART TO JESUS YESTERNIGHT AS A GUY AND THS MORNING I HAD SEXUAL AFFEAIRS WITH MY USUAL BED MATE ,AM STILL SAVED ? …..YES THAT’S IT WAS HIS RESPONSE …..O h my heart burns again ,(morally it’s incorrect to sleep around /have sexual relationship without being married, how on earth will it be correct to do so when you are in Christ,!?) and I felt like,; Has Jesus gone to the cross in vain? All the way you would think he was honestly not able to put his words right and you would have love to correct him in love but he had a settled concept! OSAS( ONCE SAVED FOREVER SAVED), trust me ,from that point I became the speaker and I scattered the audience oh , we moved from Romance to John , to Ephe , to 1st , 2nd , and 3rd john ….. and couple of the audience eyes were opened in tears and repented ,while the leader of the group was jumping around shouting on the moderator WHY DID YOU ALOW HIM, WHY DID YOU ALOW HIM” well am light , I penetrate , you must alow me for them that love light love life … please quickly see the short write up below to begin building your conviction. It is about grace through faith
1; GRACE;
A Sphere Of Spiritual And Heavenly Blessings
Ephesians 3:17-18 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
Spiritual and heavenly blessings are the best blessings; with which we cannot
be miserable, and without which we cannot but be so. Ephesians 2:12-16 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby This was from the choice of them in Christ, before the foundation of the world, that they should be made holy
by separation from sin, being set apart to God, and sanctified by the Holy Spirit, in
consequence of their election in Christ.
2; GRACE;
An Introduction To Holiness For True Happiness
All who are chosen to happiness as the end,are chosen to holiness as the means Ephesians 2:1-4 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he love us Ephesians 3:17-21 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us ,Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
You cannot live in the knowledge of the fullness of the heavenly Kingdom and not be happy but understand that you can access this only through faith.
3; GRACE ; The Love Of God To Man By Predestination ONLY Through Faith
Ephesians 2:5, 8 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:Ephesians 2:5, 8 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God ,In love they were predestinated, or fore-ordained, to be adopted as children of God by faith in Christ Jesus, and to be openly admitted to the privileges of that high relation to himself. The reconciled and adopted believer, the pardoned sinner, gives all the praise of his salvation to his gracious Father.
3; GRACE ; The Love Of God To Man By Predestination ONLY Through Faith
John 3:16-17 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.Ephesians 1:10-11 That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:
In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will.
His love appointed this method of redemption, spared not his own Son, and brought
believers to hear and embrace this salvation. It was rich grace to provide such a
surety as his own Son, and freely to deliver him up.
4; GRACE;
An Introduction To Holiness For True Happiness
All who are chosen to happiness as the end,are chosen to holiness as the means Ephesians 2:1-4 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he love us Ephesians 3:17-21 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
You cannot live in the knowledge of the fullness of the heavenly Kingdom and not be happy but understand that you can access this only through faith.
5; GRACE;
This Kind, Not A License For Sin .
1 John 5:18, 21 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
YOU don’t see sin and deliberately jump into it in, if it were not possible to go back the bible will not clam that we must walk in the spirit , neither will it declare that “ shall we continue in sin that grace may abound”? , neither will it say that believers should portray the life of such by “living newness of life …..” don’t clams to be under grace and live a graceless life . It is important to note that this method of grace in Christ Jesus gives no encouragement to evil, but shows sin in all its hatefulness, and how it deserves vengeance. The believer’s actions, as well as his words, declare the praises of Divine mercy.
2 John 1:8-10 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
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